The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-04-20


ific. We are just beginning to learn
hat to give unfortunately Is to plant
An eyer-increasing crop of paupers, and
hat the only way to get rid of them per-
is to remove one of their worst
forms of temptation, enlighten their ig-
norance and turn them into thrifty men
and women.
One of the great needs among the poor
is good food There is a widely-distrib-
uted Organization of women, the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, for the
of liquor-selling, liquor
dealing and liquor-drinking. | wish
there was another as large for the sup
ply and distribution, at cost, in the houses
of the poor, of some simple, strengthen
ing articles of food, well cooked, of good
quality, that woman going home from
her days work could carry to her family;
that poor, hard and overworked women
could send out and buy at as little cost as
they could buy the materials at the
shops, which is perfectly feasible. Good,
hot soup, and good, hot stew, with
onions or tomatoes, a loaf of good, whole
meal bread, or dish of oatmeal and
milk-these would be relished by men,
women and children.
The majority of poor women are to-
tally ignorant of the best methods of
cooking, of how to get the most and the
best out of given amount of material.
Besides, they have not time or fuel to
give to the slow processes-at- least
they think they have not, though they
often waste more in their rapid methods
than would have been expended by taking
more time. This, however, is matter
of experience and knowledge. The better
way at present would be to furnish certain
foods at lowest practicable prices and
endeayor to create by nourishment the
strength which is often sought for in
stimulants.
1t will generally be found in this world
that it is of little use to merely get rid of
something; no matter how evil or dis
agreeable it will crop out again in some
form. Its essence still lives in the uni
verse, and is bound to make its appear
ance in some shape or other. The only
way to get rid of it is to create a new
element by incorporation with some
other principle or transmute it by asso-
citation with other and more refined sub
stances. The highest morality is con-
structiye, not destructive, for it is based
on true science, which knows that moth
ing can be destroyed which has an actual
existence, and if it has not real or per-
manent life it will die of itself in time,
though it may, before dying, do much
mischief
Naturally, those who have been long
suppressed, immured, make rush for
the outer air when they find the windows
.open.0 It is SO with women; they want
the outer life, the freedom, the participa-
ton in the coming and going, the being
and doing about them. By and by they
will remember the neutrality-suspicious.
of theestate from which they came and
strive to remedy them. They will under
stand that newly awakened powers do
not lessen, but double our responsibility ;
that they are still the guardians of the
home and its interests; still the care
takers and teachers of young children;
still the agents through which the food
supply is made source of healthful
growth or of sickness and death. The
secluded lives of women have heretofore
made them largely foes Of healthful san
itation. When they have learned the
blessings which attend the use of album
dant air and water they will utilize these
common elements, and drug stores will
be less frequent, patent-medicine makers
less prosperous.
When women once turn their attention
to their homes, in the broad sense, great
things may be looked for. Heretofore
they have given most of their attention
to charities, and considered Providence
responsible for sickness and whatever
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air, want of exercise, improper or ILL
cooked food, fretfulness, spirit of COM
planning, monotony in mode of life and
ideas, want of occasional stirring up,
and others not necessary to enumerate,
they viii go to work and remedy them.
sMany women suffer from want of
change and diversity in their lives be-
cause they expect their husbands or
some one to provide 1t for them, and they
silently, or perhaps in words, resent the
dull routine which they have made for
themselves, or to which they submit.
They say che" has the store and the mar
ket, the office and the club, or gathering
of his friends, but for women there is
nothing, or else they shave not time" for
meetings. Now, If there is nothing,
make something. But 1t must be re-
markable neighborhood, indeed, now
adays that has not literary or musical
society, mothers meetings and book club,
debating society or an association for
woman's work or art decoration. These
things are in the air, and break out every
where e
sIf your genius does not run in these
directions look about you and see what
wants doing in your neighborhood; have
O tea or quilting, and form village
improvement committee; find fault with
things in general; stir up the dry bones /;
insist upon cleanliness, order; upon nui-
sances being removed, trees planted,
children educated and people reformed
under good sanitary conditions. Make
your seedlings general, and specialize
and concentrate your sweetness upon
husband, children and personal friends.
You will be surprised what an effect it
will have. Men are more bitter, more i'll
natured than women, but they expend ii
largely in politics-the sensible way for
women to do, so long as they have not
upon husband and children; not upon
anything in "a concrete form, but in a
large way-upon the present manage.
ment of everything in general.
cas- for cooking and good housekeep-
iiS, ~ 10 tiluiiiS q liBu t uiiutf u uuSllcl u
do them and not talk about them to-day
Some of the famous old housekeepers OF
the last century would open their eyes il
they heard that money could be made by
telling how to sweep room GENERALLY
by some one who does not know, or how
to bake pancakes usually by persons
who live in boarding houses and never
see any from the years beginning to its
end). Among the subjects furnished by
an editor to young girl recently for hel
Sunday articles was Housekeeping
from a Housekeeper's Point of View
She told him she knew absolutely moth
ing of housekeeping, had no taste for il
and would have to write at random. II,
replied: $50 much the better; it woulc
make it all the more readable From
this editors point of view ignorance il
not only bliss--it is capital, which makes
bliss; but all editors do not look at it il
that way, so there is chance for the In
itiated. { JENNY JUNE.r
A BIG RIVER CARGO.
Freight Enough to Require 1000 Freigh
Cars and Fifty Engines.